Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-11-17

LII cOSl Engldiiu So,OOO 10 puIcHaoo q
garter for the Crown Prince of Aus
tria.
The census of England and Wales
records 7.66S,00 women rs wage
earners.
A violin made for Louis XIV, by
Amati has just been sold for $500 at
Buda Pesth.
Sixty-one women in all have made
the ascent of Mont Blanc. Of these
only three were Americans.
Phoebe Hicks, of Petersburg, Va,
has married widower with thirty-one
children. She is his eighth wife
Mrs. Hall, of Plattsburg, Ny, was
shot in the arm while standing by q
grave by which her Husband was con-
ducting.a burial service.
A brass KEY, used as a sinker by
Yarmouth, n. S., citizen, was carried
away by fish, and several days later
was found in lobster pot one mile
away.
The Hon. John w. Allen is dead at
Cleveland. aged sc. His father, at the
age of IA, was member of the COM
pany of volunteers that captured Bur-
goyne.
A general smile was caused at a
Buffalo railway station the other day
by an innocent countryman who asked
for accommodations '.in one of them
bedroom ears"
The quantity of tea sold to foreign
firms at Yokohama from the begin
ming of the season up to the 9Th of
September was 16, $4,000 pounds, val
ued at $5,939,0O0.
In Faunettsburg, Franklin County,
Pa, lives fifteen-year-old boy who is
feet and l inch in height and well
proportional. His name is James
Newton Alexander.
Sara Bernhardt has written a new
play, but is waiting until the adver-
Using field is clear before she unseals
her lips and suffers the reporters to in
terview Sarah the dramatist.
Miss Oloff Krarer of Ottawa, ILL.,,
a native Esquimau from the eastern
coast of Greenland, has been lectur-
ing in Chicago. She is 80 years old,
and is only forty inches high.
Ludovic Haleyy, the French author,
sold more than 100000 copies of
''Abbe Constantin," blanche Cour-
onne," which he describes as being
"virtuous to revolving degree"
A Maine widower gave man $40
to pay for lights and fuel while the
widower was counting the mans
daughter. She refused to marry him,
aud he is trying to recover the $40.
A lady interfered with an i'm
patient driver in Lynn and started a
stubborn, balky horse attached to a
heavily loaded coal wagon by giving
the animal four apples and then simp-
ly saying, Come along"
Sarah Parkes, of West Bromwick,
England, has been committed for trial
on the charge of numbering her hus-
band by throwing paraffin over some
furniture and on the bed in which he
lay and setting it on fire.
"Force is no Remedy" in English
words, headed an article on the Irish
question in the CGtt@ens gazette, of
Hamburg. The police caused the
suppression of the paper. They said
the article indirectly melted the Social
lists to violence.
It is now asserted that hay fever is
not produced by pollen, butby minute
organisms floating in the atmosphere.
On the hypothesis that these creatures
have intelligence is is possible to
understand how the highly intellect
ual are selected as hay-fever victims.
Stead, of the Pail Mall Gazette, said
of the hubbub raised over his allusion
20 the Prince of Wales as s'the fat
little headed man in red Clothes"
that he, Stead, believed the English
people wouldn't have been half SO
much Mortified had he attacked the
Trinity.
Queen Victoria, it is said, has been
engaged since her arrival at Balmoral
in revising the proofs OF popular
biography of the Prince Consort,
written by Rev. William Tulloch, son
of the late Principal Tulloch. The
work will contain several anecdotes
contributed by her Majesty
A man died at Fairview, Fla, re-
Gently at the age of tnenty-seven, who
for fourteen years, according to his
dying statement, had never remained
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death-bed he stated that be had killed
MS cousin in quarrel, when boy,
and had since been wanderer.
Four couple are living in Killing
worth, Conn, who were married in
1887, and three other couples are liv-
ing in other places who were married
in Killingworth in the same year.
Twelve of the fourteen individuals are
natives of the town. The ceremony
in each instance was performed by
Rev. E. G. Swift.
The Bangor Commercial says the
season just passed has been a great
one for the corn factories, and many
additional communities in Maine are
now agitating the matter of establish
ING these establishments. The indu try
is rapidly becoming an important
branch of Maine agriculture and new
factories are continually going up.
The Atlanta (Ga.,) Constitution
says: 1--WE have too many new fan
gled health notions. The men who are
law unto themselves in their habits
generally live to attend the funeral